Area Sales Team Manager

Job Description CPM have a rare and exciting opportunity to join the team as an Area Sales Team Manager. You will be working with leading FMCG brands and managing a team of tactical agents on our Flex Team. Salary £34,000 +10% bonus and company car. Ideal location: Leeds, United Kingdom, LS1 Territory covering: Blackburn, Bradford, Bolton, Darlington, Durham, Doncaster, Blackpool, Huddersfield, Harrogate, Halifax, Lancaster, Lincoln, Leeds, Manchester, Oldham, Preston, Sheffield, Sunderland, Teeside, Wakefield, York and surrounding areas CPM partner with some of the biggest household brands and your team will be working across these accounts calling into selected retailers to increase sales and visibility of our client’s products.

This would be a great role for you if you:

• Have experience in successfully managing and coaching a team to deliver against targets.
• Have demonstrated ability to use your initiative to shape your team’s strategy to continuously improve & innovate to deliver the best results.
• Have a passion for nurturing and developing your team.
• Are unfazed by difficult situations or the need to face into challenging conversations.
• Are open to coaching and training, you might have years of management experience, but to develop you’ll need to be open to learning and applying new or different techniques.
• Can build strong, long-lasting relations with your team and wider stakeholders within the business.
• Are a strong communicator and have excellent organisation and planning skills.

A Typical week as an Area Sales Team Manager will include:

• Ensuring you team are delivering against all KPI’s for the multiple campaigns running at any given time.
• Ensuring you have enough resource to deliver each campaign, supporting the recruitment team with local recruitment.
• Coaching and developing your team via field accompaniments, providing support and guidance to improve performance.
• Building and retaining a trusted bank of temporary workers within your region who you can rely on, giving you access to flexible resource to manage any sickness and holidays.
• Building great working relationships across the wider team including Client Service, Operations, HR and any other appropriate support departments.
• Looking constantly at how things can be improved to drive efficiencies.

What we offer:

• £34,000 per annum + company car +10% bonus.
• 5 days per week, Monday and Friday, with working hours generally between 9:00am and 5:30pm. Some flexibility is expected.
• Occasional ad hoc weekend work may be required, for which time off in lieu will be provided.
• Access to award winning sales training.
• CPM are an Investors in people Gold award winner and we pride ourselves in making sure all our employees have the opportunities and support of their manager to be their very best.
• Holiday 20 days per annum + 8 bank holidays.
• Pension scheme and other perks.

If you would like to find out more about joining our expanding team then please apply now! At CPM, we are proud to foster an inclusive work environment. We believe in a workplace that celebrates the unique perspectives and skills of all individuals believing this makes us stronger and more innovative. CPM are an equal opportunities employer we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities.